Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of Muslims,” his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug.

Does Mr. Nakoula now regret the footage? After all, it fueled deadly protests across the Islamic world and led the unlikely filmmaker to his own arrest for violating his supervised release on a fraud conviction.

Not at all. In his first public comments since his incarceration soon after the video gained international attention in September, Mr. Nakoula told The New York Times that he would go to great lengths to convey what he called “the actual truth” about Muhammad. “I thought, before I wrote this script,” he said, “that I should burn myself in a public square to let the American people and the people of the world know this message that I believe in.”

In explaining his reasons for the film, Mr. Nakoula, 55, a Coptic Christian born in Egypt, cited the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Tex., as a prime example of the violence committed “under the sign of Allah.” His anger seemed so intense over the years that even from a federal prison in 2010, he followed the protests against the building of an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero in New York as he continued to work on his movie script.

Until now, only the barest details were known about the making of the film that inspired international outrage. Initial reports made it seem as if the film had been thrown together in about a year.

But a longer, more intricate and somewhat surreal story emerges from interviews with Mr. Nakoula…

“In explaining his reasons for the film, Mr. Nakoula, 55, a Coptic
Christian born in Egypt, cited the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Tex., as a
prime example of the violence committed “under the sign of Allah.”

echar

It all seems convenient to me. For who I do not know.

Miracles

a dickhead gets 15 minutes of fame for being a dickhead. next…

“Big” Richard Johnson

While I applaud him for considering self immolation, I feel compelled to chastise him for not going through with it.

BuzzCoastin

I want to personally congratulate the guys who put this psyop together
especially the crew at 2435 Laurel Canyon Blvd
even after Gen. Betrayus admits that this piece of Sid & Marty Kroftness
was totally irrelevant to the riots
it’s still being treated with significance
Bravo! Encore!

Apathesis

Amen. Can’t believe people fell for the story that his video incited the riots.

DeepCough

The American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a black prison site holing members of a Libyan militia.